Who was Warren Vaupel? That was the question on the minds of a lot of people at Laumeier Sculpture Park after receiving a $445,000 bequest in December from the late Vaupel. After serving in World War II, Vaupel attended the University of Virginia on the G.I. Bill, earning an electrical engineering degree.
Researchers who evaluated 10 learning techniques believed to improve student achievement found that five of them — including highlighting or underlining, are not very effective. The report's authors include Daniel T. Willingham of the University of Virginia.
ESPN profiles former U.Va. basketball star Rick Carlisle, now head coach of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks.
Other scholars of contemporary poetry had similar praise. “While Blanco is careful not to turn the poem into a confessional act, since its purpose is largely civic, he makes it true to his own experience in referring to his mother’s sacrifices as a cashier and his father’s as a cane cutter,” said Jahan Ramazani, an editor of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry.
(Commentary by Charles Marsh, professor of religious studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia) My students are often surprised to learn that when Martin Luther King came to Montgomery in the spring of 1954, civil rights activism was not high on his list of priorities.
Slideshow of the Rivanna River Vortex, a week-long design competition in which approximately 400 students from the University of Virginia's School of Architecture re-imagined development along the Rivanna River, from Pen Park to Woolen Mills.
After a week of intense drafting and design, the Rivanna River Vortex concluded Sunday at the Key Recreation Center, as all 30 teams presented their schemes and judges circled the gymnasium evaluating the submitted plans.
“We can’t just blame the government and police,” said Umme Hane, 19, an international student from Bangalore, India, who is in her second year at the University of Virginia, “we understand that it’s our society that needs to correct itself.”
Nearly two million people attended Obama's first inauguration ceremony but this time, only about 600,000 people are expected to make the trip. "That actually isn't bad for a second inaugural," said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "That would be more people than came to George Bush's second inaugural or Bill Clinton's. Clearly, there isn't the novelty or excitement that was there last time, but that's to be expected, given the historic nature of the 2008 campaign."
Eighth- and ninth-graders can apply for the free Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology summer experience. Students will spend three days at the University of Virginia interacting with other students, learning about environmental issues, and doing astronomy activities.
The University of Virginia Student Council called an emergency session Friday morning and passed a resolution calling for legislators to block the pending reappointment of Rector Helen E. Dragas.
“I think it’s fair to say Biden’s talents are much more appreciated within the Beltway among his fellow politicians than in the nation as a whole,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
(Commentary) This month Eric Turkheimer of the University of Virginia pushed the Nature case one more giant leap for mankind, stating not only do genes play a role in this saga, but: "The first law of behavior genetics is that all human behavioral traits are heritable."
When Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, asked if anyone wanted to stand up and speak against the confirmation of University of Virginia Rector Helen E. Dragas, no one answered him.
(Commentary by third-year law student Elizabeth Dobbins) I wasn’t listening. Ten minutes into a conversation with my dad, my mind was elsewhere. Like a lucid dream, I was suddenly aware in a state of disinterestedness and resolved to examine it.
University of Virginia political scholar Larry J. Sabato argues that there have been only two truly great inaugural addresses in history – Lincoln’s second and Kennedy’s. And while there were famous lines produced by other presidents dating back to Washington and Jefferson, Sabato said, “By and large, a reading of all of the addresses at one sitting brought on a long winter’s nap; the writing was pedestrian, the topics often picayune, the delivery in the television age usually falling flat."
According to a new documentary film out about the controversial suicide of a Virginia Quarterly Review editor, the circumstance surrounding his death "doesn’t remotely resemble what could be defined as bullying."
That observation about objects in motion tending to stay in motion can apply to humans, too. Back in the summer of 1962, Fred Quarles traveled from the University of Virginia to the Philippines, and then kept right on moving.
By their very nature, second-term inaugurations never inspire quite the same excitement. “For a lot of people, this is kind of old hat,” said Russell Riley, a presidential speech analyst at the University of Virginia. “The newness and excitement around the president’s first history-making inauguration have given way to time-worn political reality.”
Recalling the old adage that presidents usually only get one line in history, University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato wrote in a pre-inauguration commentary: “Is President Obama’s line already written, that he was our first African-American President? Or is there something broader and bigger? Obama’s second inaugural address is a prominent opportunity to stake his claim.”